Hollywood is sick

Rating: 1/10 (13 August 2005)

the island is one of the worst movies i have ever seen. Hollywood, i am sad to say, is sick.
this movie sounds good: it has mcgregor, buscemi, scarlett johansson in a plot that you could describe as gattaca-goes-action-movie. but it is full of logical inconsistencies, melodramatic music and horribly stilted visual clichés.
there are the pod people from "matrix 1", the product-placement cadillac-car chases from "matrix 2", the weird giant-rusty-turbine effects from "alien 3", the world-rebirth effects from "total recall". name the visually-impressive special effect from the last three decades, and you probably got it, albeit in a diet version.
but it gets even uglier: there is a scene in which the clone people are sent into a gas chamber! these movie business folks sure got a nerve. what were they thinking when they decided to use auschwitz aesthetics to make a visual point?
actually, the only point it made on me is to make sure i never, never see another movie made by this horrible director (michael bay, of Armageddon and other boring blockbusters).